...you can help protect your account by making sure you’re using a strong, unique password for your Google Account,...
...you can help protect your account by making sure you’re using a strong, unique password for your Google Account, upgrading your account to use 2-step verification, and updating the recovery options on your account such as your secondary email address and your phone number.
Here's where you can turn on 2-step verification: https://www.google.com/settings/security
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In 2010, our security team started seeing a trend of spammers hijacking legitimate accounts to send their messages (since if a message comes from someone you know, it's more likely to make it through spam filters). To help protect your account against this kind of attack, our team came up with a system that uses 120+ signals to try and detect whether a log-in is legitimate, beyond just a password. The result is that we've reduced the number of compromised accounts by 99.7 percent since the peak of these hijacking attempts in 2011.
Read more about this effort on our blog, where you can also find out more about things you can do to help strengthen your account security, such as using a strong password, setting up 2-step verification and having recovery options on your account:
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2013/02/an-update-on-our-war-against-account.html
Here's where you can turn on 2-step verification: https://www.google.com/settings/security
Originally shared by Google
In 2010, our security team started seeing a trend of spammers hijacking legitimate accounts to send their messages (since if a message comes from someone you know, it's more likely to make it through spam filters). To help protect your account against this kind of attack, our team came up with a system that uses 120+ signals to try and detect whether a log-in is legitimate, beyond just a password. The result is that we've reduced the number of compromised accounts by 99.7 percent since the peak of these hijacking attempts in 2011.
Read more about this effort on our blog, where you can also find out more about things you can do to help strengthen your account security, such as using a strong password, setting up 2-step verification and having recovery options on your account:
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2013/02/an-update-on-our-war-against-account.html
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